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Sunday, November 4, 1934
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The Headlines
CONGRESS BATTLE GIVES FIRST TEST OF ADMINISTRATION; Democrats Seem Likely to Increase Their Existing Majority in the Senate. CHIEF INTEREST IN HOUSE Some Seats May Be Lost to Republicans, but Democrats Will Control. 140 CONTESTS IN DOUBT Seventy-one New Faces Are Assured in the New Congress and Not a 'Lame Duck.' CONGRESS BATTLES OVER NEW DEAL
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blue Moon
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
The must-have
Sorry! (Board Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Charles K. Kao (1933)
- Walter Cronkite (1916)
- Joseph Rotblat (1908)
- Will Rogers (1879)
- Thomas Klestil (1932)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
damefellaswelllousy
Hardboiled
clip jointgriftershamusgunsel
Swing Era
alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove
Tech Check
Cat's Eye Road Studs, Telex & Hammond Organ.
Cost of Living (1930)
Loaf of Bread
$0.09
Gallon of Gas
$0.20
Average Home
$3,900
New Car
$640
Time Elapsed
33,451 days ago
(91 years, 236 days)